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Exhibitions

The greatest paintings are always full of important unimportant things

8 March 2025

9:00 AM

8 March 2025

9:00 AM

Goya to Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection

Courtauld Gallery, until 26 May

Goya to Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection, at the Courtauld, consists of a selection of 25 absorbing paintings chosen from 207. I was disappointed but not surprised that one of the greatest paintings in the world, Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s ‘Die Anbetung der Könige im Schnee’ (The Adoration of the Kings in the Snow, 1563), didn’t make the journey from Winterthur in Switzerland.

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